The renowned World Music program at NIU is what drew Chih-I Hsaio to DeKalb after earning his degree in Music Theory...
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Award winners announced in College of Visual and Performing Arts
As the 2023-2024 academic year comes to a close, the College of Visual and Performing Arts has named this year's award...
A decade in the making, Music’s Brian Hart has edited the history of the symphony in the Americas
Brian Hart thought the hardest part of editing the fifth volume of "The Symphonic Repertoire" was going to be filling...
NIU’s Opera Theatre presents “The Happy Prince” and a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, April 1 and 3
Northern Illinois University will present both the one-act opera The Happy Prince and a tribute to American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim with performances Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 3 at 3 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the NIU Music Building....
School of Music students present benefit concert for Ukraine, March 25
Students from the Northern Illinois University School of Music will present a benefit concert organized to raise awareness and aid for Ukraine, Friday, March 25 at 8 p.m. in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building on NIU's main campus. Performers from the...
School of Music’s Rodrigo Villanueva receives Fulbright Scholarship Award
NIU School of Music Professor of Jazz Studies Rodrigo Villanueva has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to spend four months in Brazil researching Afro-Brazilian rhythms and teaching at two universities, the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (May 1 through...
Robert Sims featured in PBS American Masters film on Marian Anderson
Robert Sims, professor of music in the NIU School of Music is featured in a PBS American Masters documentary film on renowned American vocalist Marian Anderson. Sims worked as a music consultant, interviewee and actor on the project. "I was honored to be included in...
Gay Magnus, M.M. ’03, Leads Alpha School of Music in Jamaica
Music has called Gay Magnus, M.M. ’03, back home. Today, as the director of the music program for the Alpha School of Music in Kingston, Jamaica, she has the opportunity to instill in young students a passion for music she...
Free NIU student tickets for Jazz at the Egyptian, Feb. 5
DeKalb's iconic Egyptian Theatre hosts the Fifth Annual Jazz at the Egyptian, Saturday night, February 5 at 7 p.m. The concert features the NIU Jazz Orchestra, Jazz in Progress, the DeKalb High School Jazz Ensemble and the Sycamore High School Jazz Ensemble. Tickets...
NIU Chamber Choir and Percussion Ensemble to perform Misa Criolla at Illinois Music Educator’s Conference
NIU Professor of Music and Head of Choral Studies Eric Johnson had been waiting to have just the right mix of the number and kind of singers to take on a piece by Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez, and last spring he had that mix, and enlisted the help of two fellow...
Father-daughter CVPA alumni score big on Shark Tank
What happens when you let Huskies into the shark tank? We found out in March, when Lindsey Valiulis Fleischhauer, ’04, and her father Stan Valiulis, ’84, presented their Totes Babies product to ABC’s critically acclaimed and multi-Emmy® Award-winning...
School of Music Sondheim tribute accepting auditions from students of any major by Jan. 28
SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 28 The School of Music and the Opera Department would like to offer an open call for students at NIU to be part of a Stephen Sondheim Tribute. Since the school is online the first week of school, it is asked that interested...